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Re: How to avoid stealing a lock

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:33:10 -0800

Henrik Sundberg wrote:
> 2008/2/1, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt_at_satorlaser.com>:
>> On Friday 01 February 2008, Kota, Sreenivasa ShravanaKumar wrote:
>> > How to avoid stealing a lock in SVN ? Is it possible ? If so, How ?
>> >
>> > I appreciate your help
>>
>>
>> Well, you can avoid stealing a lock by simply making the person that owns the
>> lock release it voluntarily. Locks are intended as a tool to communicate with
>> fellow developers, but they don't work on their own.
>
> As I understand it, it is possible to just change the attributes of
> the file to writable.
> It really depends on what you're after.

That works to let you edit the file, but it doesn't steal the lock in svn.

Blair

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